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Given The Breadth Of Anita Diamants Bestselling Biblical Epic, The Red Tent , It Seems Natural That Her Second Novel Has A Much Closer Focus. Set In The Small Massachusetts Fishing Town Of Gloucester, Good Harbor Is A Slow-paced Study Of Female Friendship. Here Diamant Can Luxuriate In The Development Of Just Two Principal Characters: 59-year-old Kathleen Levine, A Childre Given The Breadth Of Anita Diamants Bestselling Biblical Epic, The Red Tent , It Seems Natural That Her Second Novel Has A Much Closer Focus. Set In The Small Massachusetts Fishing Town Of Gloucester, Good Harbor Is A Slow-paced Study Of Female Friendship. Here Diamant Can Luxuriate In The Development Of Just Two Principal Characters: 59-year-old Kathleen Levine, A Childrens Librarian Who Is Undergoing Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer, And A 42-year-old Romance Novelist, Joyce Tabachnik, Who Has Bought A Summer Retreat In Gloucester In The Hope Of Finally Writing A Serious Book. The Two Meet At Temple After A Service Presided Over By A Newly Hired Female Rabbi. (What Joy It Must Have Been For Diamant, Who Chronicled So Much Oppression Of Hebrew Women In The Red Tent , To Casually Include The Presence Of Female Clergy.) Kathleen Has No Real Confidante Aside From Her Husband, Buddy Joyce Is Facing Estrangement From Both Her Business-minded Husband, Frank, And Her Soccer-obsessed Daughter, Nina. What The Women Are Lacking, They Find In Each Other. As Their Intimacy Grows, Diamant Sometimes Tells Us What We Already Know, Breaking Into A Conversation, For Example, To Announce How Well Things Are Going (They Smiled At Each Other. They Were Going To Be Okay.). This Is A Moving Story Nonethelessshort On Incident, But With Carefully Drawn Characters And Fluid, Matter-of-fact Prose. Regina Marler
Given The Breadth Of Anita Diamants Bestselling Biblical Epic, The Red Tent , It Seems Natural That Her Second Novel Has A Much Closer Focus. Set In The Small Massachusetts Fishing Town Of Gloucester, Good Harbor Is A Slow-paced Study Of Female Friendship. Here Diamant Can Luxuriate In The Development Of Just Two Principal Characters: 59-year-old Kathleen Levine, A Childre Given The Breadth Of Anita Diamants Bestselling Biblical Epic, The Red Tent , It Seems Natural That Her Second Novel Has A Much Closer Focus. Set In The Small Massachusetts Fishing Town Of Gloucester, Good Harbor Is A Slow-paced Study... Read More